tamarind

I’m eating a tamarind for the first time.  I’ve had them in candies or other things, but never straight.  On the outside, they look like a giant peanut.  Inside, they’re covered with a kind of threading surrounding the fruity part, with hard seeds inside.  You can’t eat most of it…only the thin fruity covering around the seeds.  It has a kinda sweet/sour A1 fig newton taste.  Not bad or anything, but I don’t know if I’d go out of my way to buy them.